Luigi Solari

Luigi Solari (1831-1900) was a Lieutenant-General of the Royal Italian Army during the Italian Wars of Independence and the Perugine Revolution.

Biography
Luigi Solari was born in Turin, Sardinia-Piedmont in 1831 to a family of Italian nobles, and he entered the Sardinian Army in 1848 as a volunteer. Solari fought in several battles of the Italian Wars of Independence, and he was wounded in battle with the Austrian Empire at Custoza. Solari rose to the rank of Colonel in 1862 after taking part in the Expedition of the Thousand to Naples, and he was brevetted a Lieutenant-General and given command of 15,000 troops during the Perugine Revolution. Solari's forces crushed Marino Orsini's 3,000-strong revolutionary army with 152 losses, crushing the uprising. Solari would be made a Count for this victory, and he lived on an estate in Viterbo until his death in 1900.